new comp being built

[Method-Man]

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/N4vsqs

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz Quad-Core Processor

Corsair H60 54.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Asus Z97 PRO GAMER ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Zotac Premium Edition 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Asus GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX Video Card

Corsair SPEC-01 RED ATX Mid Tower Case

EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

[Tutonic]

Is there a question here?

[Method-Man]

i was ment to put any ideas but seem to have slipped my mind

[TeaLeaf]

Are you planning to overclock the system?

[Gunda]

Why not a skylake lga1151 socket build?

[Vargen]

What is the goal of the build? Budget? What resolution will it run?

[Twyst]

What resolution will it run?

This is probably the most important question of modern times to ask!

[Method-Man]

the objective was power and gfx for budget, not relly planning on overclocking as only used for gaming nothing else really, also most of theese parts have been choosen by me because of the great revewis not just clicked and hoped it worked
but for just over a £1000 not bad really??

[Tutonic]

That's an expensive motherboard if you're not going to do any overclocking, so there's money to be saved there if you want it.

Comments above about resolution etc are good questions - the higher your monitor resolution, for example, the more grunt you'll need.

[Method-Man]

well im getting the motherboard just incase i do in the future want to overclock it also im only using a tv thats 24" at 60hz that has max resolution of 1920 x 1080

[Vargen]

For gaming on a budget, I think you could get more bang for your buck by going i5, going cheaper on the motherboard. What you set up should be more than enough for 1080 though. Maybe consider some extra storage if you aren't salvaging drives from your old rig.
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Also if you aren't gonna add a lot of components, you could consider a smaller form factor, to allow for easier LAN attendance and stuff. There are a lot of good options in the micro-atx or mini-itx. I really like this Corsair case.


Just a quick stab at it without really reading up that much. £74 saved just by doing this. http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/xtWwNG

[Method-Man]

why is going i5 better?
just asking as not the comp pro my brother pick it all out as he is the I.T guy

[Twyst]

why is going i5 better?
just asking as not the comp pro my brother pick it all out as he is the I.T guy

Vargen didn't say better, he said more bang for buck.

All things being equal, an i5 is just as fast as an i7 for playing games.
i7 has HyperThreading, i5 does not, that is the difference.

HyperThreading basically simulates 1 core alongside a physical core.
However, if the physical core is already resourced to something intensive (like say a game), then the HyperThreaded core performs no better than an ordinal thread on the same physical core.

What HyperThreading gives you is better SMP scaling for processeses.
As a game is one process with N threads you just don't need HyperThreading.
Where HT shines is on a generic desktop where you have many applications open and they respond better as a whole, or on a server with many processes, they can respond faster as a whole provided none of them peg a CPU to 100%.

So, the more bang for buck means that it's cheaper to buy the equivalent i5 vs the more expensive i7 because for gaming there is no difference.

[Jewelz^]

Why not a skylake lga1151 socket build?

THIS :withstupid:

[Method-Man]

not brought the cpu just yet but yeh going to go with the i5-4690k